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Hi guys, sorry to bother you once again, but i am pretty confused here.
I bought my cinq for a steal with what the seller told me was a blown head gasket (a common ailment for FIRE engines, so i believed him right away). When trying to start the engine it ran very rough/on 3 cilinders and produced some good amount of white smoke.
On tearing it down, the leftmost cilinder looked to be rather oily/wet, the plug was wet/oily as it came out, and there was a good amount of oily gunk in the plug-well on that side of the block. Now i finally got my head off (after doing battle with a stubborn headbolt for a few nights), the gasket doesnt look like it's blown. It does look rather grubby, and cilinder 1 is dirty-wet, where as the rest is just dirty.
pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/106739504268479316664/Cinq02?authuser=0&feat=directlink
any ideas on what might be wrong here? i'd hate to put it all back together to find out something else entirely is wrong
any tips on cleaning the head and the mating surfaces by the way? there is a lot of carbon deposits on the valves and such
I bought my cinq for a steal with what the seller told me was a blown head gasket (a common ailment for FIRE engines, so i believed him right away). When trying to start the engine it ran very rough/on 3 cilinders and produced some good amount of white smoke.
On tearing it down, the leftmost cilinder looked to be rather oily/wet, the plug was wet/oily as it came out, and there was a good amount of oily gunk in the plug-well on that side of the block. Now i finally got my head off (after doing battle with a stubborn headbolt for a few nights), the gasket doesnt look like it's blown. It does look rather grubby, and cilinder 1 is dirty-wet, where as the rest is just dirty.
pics: https://picasaweb.google.com/106739504268479316664/Cinq02?authuser=0&feat=directlink
any ideas on what might be wrong here? i'd hate to put it all back together to find out something else entirely is wrong
any tips on cleaning the head and the mating surfaces by the way? there is a lot of carbon deposits on the valves and such
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